Judge has ordered the Immigration and...

BARRED ALIENS. A

September 23, 1989

NEW YORK — BARRED ALIENS. A judge has ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to reveal part of its secret list of barred aliens, believed to have as many as 40,000 names, and its reasons for keeping them out of the country. U.S. District Judge John M. Walker issued the order Tuesday in connection with a lawsuit demanding to know why Patricia Lara, a Colombian journalist, was barred three years ago. Walker said that while the barred aliens' occupations and the reasons for their exclusion had to be revealed, their names would not be made public. Lara, 35, was detained at Kennedy Airport in 1986, her visa was revoked and she was sent back to Colombia without a hearing. Lara reportedly was linked to a Colombian terrorist group.